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USCA petitions for stronger beef labeling guidelines

Another beef organization is asking the USDA to establish beef labeling requirements.  The U.S. Cattlemen’s Association petitioned the Food Safety and Inspection Service Friday to limit the use of the terms “meat” and “beef” to animals born, raised, and harvested in the traditional manner and not imitation meat grown in laboratories.

The USCA also wants the agency to prohibit both domestic and foreign alternative products from using these terms.

The USCA says some major U.S. meatpackers and companies in other countries are heavily investing in alternatives like bio meat, clean meat or cultured meat.  Their action is in line with a position taken by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association a week ago during the Cattle Industry Convention in Phoenix, Arizona, where NCBA’s Colin Woodall told Brownfield it’s wrong for imitation products to use the nomenclature of the beef industry.